This page contains web 2.0 resources for teachers.




















Source for the above video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0oDIEbYFc&feature=related

Livebinders A great way to organize content, a focus topic, or to share tools and resources

Free Technology Tools for Teachers by Mickie Mueller
Interactive Websites by J2Training
Write On! For Kidsby KB Konnected
A House Dividedby Andrew Weber
Math Interactive Websitesby Shana Ellason
M3Notes and More by Helen Macey This is an example of how a teacher organized a livebinder for her course.
NASA MMS Challenge Lesson An example of a teacher who organized resources for her students.
Student Digital Textbook An example of a teacher who organized resources created by students and for students in her class.
An Educators Guide to Twitter by Steven Anderson
Free Online Resourcesby chstefanski An example of how a school organized it's online resources.
An Art Education ACING by Hope
Fun Math Resourcesby kennedan
QR Codes in Educationby Steven Anderson
Maps for Students and Parentsby Toby Price
Nordonia Hills City School Curriculum

Teacher Resources (each provides a variety of resources)

Techmarzano This is a good resource that shows Marzano's 9 strategies and their impact on achievement.
Web2that works This resource share a variety of web tools as they align with Marzanos 9 identified strategies that impact student achievement.
100 Best Youtube videos for teachers Youtube videos categorized by content.
17 Free Youtube Tools Every Teacher Should Know About
Karen Sipe Diigo Join my Diigo and have access to hundreds of already categorized resources.
Go2Web2.0 This resources has tons of web 2.0 resources that can be found with key words such as collaboration, create, etc.
Tools Galore wiki This wiki is from the College of Human Science Iowa State University. There are a variety of resources organized for easy use.
Peer Editing Example of a Thinkfinity resource
Describe that Face: An Interactive Writing Game Example of a Thinkfinity resource
Interactive Science Example Example of a Thinkfinity resource
Edmodo If you don't have Moodle or Google but you want to work in a secure environment with your students then check out this tool.
50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story This site has way more then 50 resources that can be used to create digital stories. Worth checking out.
Photo Story 3 download link If you don't have a digital story creation tool, think about using this free tool from Microsoft. So easy to create a digital story in 5 steps.
Podcasting in Plain English Want to know what a Podcast is check out this easy to follow video.
Wikis in Plain English Not sure what a wiki is all about, then check out this simple to follow video.
CloudTrip Love this resource. Users can find types of resources using the categories already organized.
Lesson Writer Lesson writer is an easy to use tool that allows you to take web based articles and create reading and writing activities.
20-21st Century Tools This site has a variety of tools listed by categories for easy access.
Wikispace from Wissahickon School District This wiki provides a collection of tools that teachers can use.
Zoho Writer Works like google docs does not require an email or gmail account.
Watch Know Learn- Free videos for education
Bitly - Have a huge URL that you want to share. Use Bitly to quickly shorten it.
Google URL Shortener- Use this link to shorten those long URLs before sharing them. You can go to www.google.com and inthe search field type goo.gl and this shortner will also appear for you to insert the long link and convert it to a short one.
Gramarly -Grammarly is an automated proofreader and your personal grammar coach. Correct up to 10 times more mistakes than popular word processors.
Tools for Educators - Free tools for teaching - printable worksheets, classroom printables and on-line worksheet templates with images
from Tools for Educators. Use these free worksheets to print, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or classroom materials for kids. There are some vocabulary word groups on this link near the bottom of the page.
Super Teacher ToolsThis site has tons of quick easy tools for teachers to download and use without a learning curve. There are downloadable games such as Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, classroom management tool such as seating chart, random generator, group maker. One of the newest tools is Speed Match Quiz Maker.
Webtools4u2use Lots of resources organized on a wiki.
Class Dojo - Track student behavior good and bad with this easy to use tool.
Pinterest - A great tool for collecting and following educators on varied topics. Follow me by joining and searching for Karen Sipe. I have lots of ipad apps organized by categories.

Assessment, Polling and Survey Tools

Rubistar Create rubrics for any type of project
Quizstar Create quizzes for your students
Survey Monkey Create class surveys
Equizzer Create a class and assign custom made quizzes to the students in the class
Poll Daddy Create polls for your students
That Quiz This site allows students or teachers to create practice quizes in math, vocabulary, SAT vocab, science, and geography.
eraserdog Free printable math worksheets
Poll Everywhere - Create a Poll for which you can obtain instant feedback.
Quizlet Allows you to create a class and review activities. There are many teacher and varied content reviews already created and ready to be used.
Mentimeter Allows you to create polls that students can respond to with their mobile device.
Zondle- Use Zondle for in a variety of ways such as homework, assessment, learning, whole class, revision & review, and with young children. To link to the Zondle answers to questions page click here
Socrative - Teachers and students can use Socrative on any device with a web browser (tablets, smartphones, laptops, iPod touches, etc.) Quick Start Sheets
Plickers Scan your students answers instantaneously with your smartphone or tablet's camera. Provides instand feedback to students.
getting started with Kahoot! Link to create kahoot activities Link to play Kahoot.

Fun Learning Sites (many of these are great to share with parents)

Tutpup Math interactive - compete with players around the world without having to put in any personal information
Spelling City practice spelling words
ABCya
Microsoft Game Templates
Academic Skill Builders -
Starfall - literacy related activities
Little Bird Tales
Smarty Games
Learn with Math Games
Spin and Spell Good for ESL students who are learning the English language.
Fraction Booster Activities Good visual site for students who need to visually see fractions
Literactive Letter Board
Storyjumper Story creation
Kerpoof Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation.

Web Literacy, Copyright, Citations

Trackstar
Creative Commons
Fairly Use Tale
Alan November Web Literacy Site (This site aligns with November's book Web Literacy for Educators.)
Internet Detective Searching Tutorial
EasyBib- Great site for students to automatically input their information to create an MLA citation. For quick use I have also included PDFs from the EasyBib site for creating citations for books, journals, magazine, newspapers, and websites here for your use. APA style autoformatting is also available from Easybib for a fee. EasyBib also has a mobile app available.

Blogging

Blogging in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
The Purple Teapot An example of a blog. This one has been created by a retired technology instructor from Central York. Her purpose was to provide a place where children could learn to blog.
The Connected Classroom This is another blog example. This blog was set up to share information about technology.

Typing Skills Sites

Typing Test.com
Type Racer
Dance Mat Typing

Links to spruce up your web site.

Free animated banners To be used with your web site
Animated 3d text for your web site3D_Effect__15388.gif
Flaming text to add to your sitefire.PNG
Spell with Flickrspruce.pngup.pnglabels.png

Additional Web Resources

Literacy Trips K-12 (to create your own lit trip you must have access to google earth)
Moodle Resources
Moodle Practice site